Improvement in graters



H. C. WHITEt |mprovement in Graters. NO. 114,070, K Patented Apr\25,187!.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

HENRY CLAY WHITE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE BOOTH & OO., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT lN GRATERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 14,070, dated April 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY CLAY WHITE, of the city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have made a new and useful Improvement in Graters, suitable for use as a domestic grater; and I hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a perspective and plan View. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal, and Fig. 3 a cross, section.

In general form and arrangement my invention does not differ from such as are now in use. The grating-surface is a sheet of tin "punched in the usual manner.

The object of my invention is to make an implement of a size sucient for general household use, which shall be cheap, strong, and durable, and which can be manufactured on a large scale, mostly by machinery.

My grater is composed of a frame having grooves in the side pieces and a grater-plate. The frame is composed of four pieces. The

side pieces, A A', have each a sawed groove, a, extending from the top to the lower crosspiece, B. The upper cross-piece, C, has a hole, h, which serves as a handle, and also to hang the grater in its proper place on a pin or hook. The crosspieces B and O are fastened to the side pieces, A A', so that their upper surfaces are flush with the lower sides of the grooves a a.

The gratter-plate D is a plain sheet of metal, tin-plate preferred, punched in the usual way. It is slipped into the grooves aa in the frame,

and is of sufficient length that its upper andV lower borders lap over the top and bottom pieces, C and B. One or more tacks, t', in the upper and lower borders of the grater-plate fasten it to the cross-pieces.

lf the grater-plate becomes worn, by drawing the tacks t' the plate may be slipped out of the grooves a a and a new one inserted. The cost of a new grater-plate is but a few cents.

The parts ofthe frame are fastened together either by mortise and tenon, or, more simply, by nails or screws, through the sides A A into the cross-pieces B and C. f'

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The grater herein described, composed of side pieces, A A, with longitudinal grooves c a, cross-pieces B and C, and grater-plate D, the whole arranged and combined substantially as set forth.

HENRY CLAY WHITE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES B. THOMAS, JAMES H. Rnnsn. 

